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by Alex Dobie
Mar 03, 2013
A look back over the past week's Android news from Barcelona
Like CES a month ago, this year’s Mobile World Congress was lighter than usual on major Android announcements. HTC did its ...
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by Andrew Martonik
Feb 28, 2013
NVIDIA just this week showed off some impressive screenshots and gameplay video of new Tegra 4 optimized games, and now we've got a look at one of them running on Project Shield. Burn Zombie Bur...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Feb 27, 2013
While some notable big names in Android were mostly missing, Mobile World Congress 2013 still had a lot of Android to show off -- not counting what was in Phil's shoulder bag. We saw this years ...
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by Alex Dobie
Feb 27, 2013
The YotaPhone is an example of one of the things we like the most about Android -- crazy hardware implemented in new and interesting ways. Dual-screen smartphones are nothing new -- recall the ill-f...
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by Alex Dobie
Feb 27, 2013
ZTE, like local rival Huawei, is desperately trying to establish itself as one of the bigger international smartphone players, focusing more and more on high-end "hero" devices. To that en...
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by Alex Dobie
Feb 27, 2013
As a global electronics giant, Samsung has presence in every room in the home, most notably the living room -- the company recently claimed to be selling three TVs every second. And as we all know, ...
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by Alex Dobie
Feb 26, 2013
We're winding down here in Barcelona, as the major announcements draw to a close and we finish up our hands-on coverage of the new devices at Mobile World Congress. In our final MWC podcast, we ...
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by Alex Dobie
Feb 26, 2013
At the conceptual level, the ASUS Padfone series has always sounded cool, but it's never managed to translate that into mainstream success. Previous Padfones, though technically impressive,...
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by Alex Dobie
Feb 26, 2013
Android has a long history of playing host to ridiculously large smartphones. First there was the Dell Streak. Next came the original Samsung Galaxy Note. And now in 2013 we have the ASUS Fonepad, a...
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by Alex Dobie
Feb 26, 2013
With devices like the Galaxy S3 and Galaxy Note, Samsung has been an integral part of the push towards bigger screens on smartphones. But traditionally these larger, higher-resolution devices have b...
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by Richard Devine
Feb 26, 2013
More ASUS related news has emerged from Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, this time concerning the UK launch of their MeMo Pad tablets. Both the 7-inch and 10.1-inch tablets will be available to...
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by Phil Nickinson
Feb 26, 2013
LG Photosphere from the Nexus 4 and improves it on its newest device
It's no secret that I'm a pretty big fan of the 360-degree Photospheres you can shoot with the Nexus 4. Fire up the...
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by Richard Devine
Feb 26, 2013
Remember the Qi wireless charger we first showed you yesterday at Mobile World Congress? LG has today officially announced it and in the process claim that the hockey puck like charging disk ...
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by Richard Devine
Feb 26, 2013
Last month's CES over in Las Vegas had a whole lot of 4K Television news. After HD, comes Ultra HD, and with it some pretty amazing looking TV sets with an amazing price to match. If you were ...
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by Alex Dobie
Feb 26, 2013
At CES in January Lenovo unveiled the K900, a high-end, big-screen smartphone aimed at the Chinese market. And at Mobile World Congress this week, the manufacturer gave us a closer look at this...
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by Andrew Martonik
Feb 26, 2013
ZTE is taking the wraps off of its latest large-screen phone, the Grand Memo, at MWC 2013 in Barcelona. What we're looking at here is a 5.7-inch display at just 720x1280 resolution -- but curi...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Feb 26, 2013
Twitter has announced that they will be among the first marquee applications to support Firefox OS. Mozilla announced yesterday that Firefox has committed mobile operators in 18 markets, and th...
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by Richard Devine
Feb 25, 2013
Another busy day in Spain has drawn to a close, and center of a decent piece of todays new devices announcements was ASUS. In the way that only Johnny Shih and company know how, ASUS today introduce...
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by Alex Dobie
Feb 25, 2013
We've just wrapped up the first proper day of Mobile World Congress here in Barcelona, Spain, and there's been a lot of Android and Windows Phone developments to go around. From the Optimus ...
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by Sean Brunett
Feb 25, 2013
Developers will be thrilled to hear that Airpush and Apsalar have announced a partnership at MWC that will bring better in-app analytics to Android. Airpush is a mobile ad network and Apsalar is a l...
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by Andrew Martonik
Feb 25, 2013
Sony is announcing today at MWC that its latest flagship Xperia Z and Xperia Tablet Z will both be available globally starting March 1st. The Xperia Z, which we've had extensive hands-on ...
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by Phil Nickinson
Feb 25, 2013
We're live from ZTE's Mobile World Congress presser, where Life is Grand.
Liveblog's after the break.
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by Alex Dobie
Feb 25, 2013
At the LG MWC booth today the manufacturer didn't just launch the Optimus G Pro and L II series, there was also a new mid-range series of 4G LTE smartphones on display -- the Optimus F...
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by Andrew Martonik
Feb 25, 2013
ASUS is taking the wraps off of its latest phone-tablet hybrid docking device, the PadFone Infinity, at MWC 2013. The specs here will not disappoint, checking every box you'd expect for a high...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Feb 25, 2013
ASUS takes the stage at Mobile World Congress 2013 today, and ahead of their event they have announced the Fonepad -- a 7-inch tablet with full 3G data and voice services using a new Intel ATOM proc...
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by Alex Dobie
Feb 25, 2013
Samsung gets a lot of stick over the build quality of some of its phones -- a common complaint of devices like the Galaxy S3 and Note 2 are that they're glossy, plasticky and cheap-looking. So i...
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by Phil Nickinson
Feb 25, 2013
Sony might well have set the new standard for thin and light in this Jelly Bean-based 10-incher
Seven-inch tablets might rule the race to the bottom, but Sony's recently announced Xperi...
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by Phil Nickinson
Feb 25, 2013
We've live from ASUS on the first official day of Mobile World Congress here in Barcelona, Spain. Chances are we're about to get some Android tablet action dropped on us...
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by Alex Dobie
Feb 25, 2013
LG announced the Optimus L II series last week, and today we got our first chance to check out the new mid-range handsets at Mobile World Congress. As it was last year, the L series represents LG...
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by Phil Nickinson
Feb 25, 2013
LG's flagship Android smartphone gets bigger, faster and ... a bit familiar-looking
You're forgiven for thinking it. We all are. It's impossible to pick up the LG Optimus G Pro -- th...
